A mid-crustal strain-transfer model for continental deformation: A new perspective from high-resolution deep seismic-reflection profiling across NE Tibet

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 279-288

  Wang, Chengshan ^a   Gao, Rui ^b   Yin, An ^a,c   Wang, Haiyan ^b   Zhang, Yuxiu ^a   Guo, Tonglou ^d   Li, Qusheng ^b   Li, Yalin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SINOPEC   (China)

Author keywords

Channel flow; Continental deformation; Continental subduction; Rheology of continental deformation; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTION; DUPLEX STRUCTURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; KUNLUN FAULT; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MECHANICAL STRENGTH; PLATE TECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; SIMPLE SHEAR; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; TIBETAN CRUST; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS; UPPER CRUST; VERTICALLY COHERENT DEFORMATION;

ELASTICITY; KINEMATICS; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY;

DEFORMATION;

CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION;

CHINA; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79956307786     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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